Play Quotes

I started when I was 4, but I didn't play seriously until I was 8.

I will be very grateful that I get to go out and play a song and get well paid for it.

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

I don't care who I play to, as long as they enjoy listening to what I play.

The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut too close together for the audience and the actors.

A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.

When I play live, I feel how the audience is going and follow and lead at the same time.

Rather than say I play Jazz, I simply say I play music.

Intellect has to surrender to instinct when it is time to play.

Our actions in this world, and our ability to rise above the limits of our own self-interest, live on far beyond us and play their humble part in shaping a world of spirituality and peace.

I don't have a favorite place to play.

I actually play sports better when I'm mad. Some players don't play better when they're mad. They lose their sense of where they're at. I have a tendency to do better when I'm under pressure.

If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been.

James Brown is the reason I play guitar.

From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started opening up.

When I was a teenager, I learned that in order to play guitar like Johnny Ramone, it takes a huge amount of physical effort.

I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.

The process of doing a play is an organic one and the process of doing a film is totally un-organic.

When I was at home, I felt loved and safe. My sisters were always a safe haven for me. I knew they would always play with me and make me feel like I was one of them.

I love collecting guitars, even though I can't play well. My favourite guitarists are Richie Blackmore, Jimmy Paige, and John Mayer.

It's really hard for me to sing and play bass.

I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life.

If the coach insists upon hard play, but clean play, the team will do likewise.

I'm not homely enough to play the nerdy girl and not nearly pretty enough to play the pretty girl.

I have to play as much of the game as I allow myself to get the music heard. But it's not unlike the rest of the world, so I'm not as up in arms about it as I could be.

I didn’t play video games because my parents didn’t allow it. That was banned from my childhood experience.

I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection.

The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer

In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.

There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.

If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it.

When I was a player, I didn't expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard every day and get better. And I never learned anything by losing.

It's the opportunity to play something completely different, responding to what happened just before you started to play, and I love that.

If we play genie and grant client wishes, we are apt to construct castles of code in the air.

In any character I ever play, whether she's good or bad or whatever, my most important thing is heart.

My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff.

The World Cup gave me a lot of confidence - just to know that I can play at the highest level and not only complete but play well.

There are plenty of ways you can play the game of fighting and really seem to be fighting without going for the jugular.

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz.

After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way.

I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.

I have been able to get a small audience. It's not the huge audience, but it's enough to make it possible to play. I appreciate that.

I did a few more plays, and then I went to L.A., because I knew I could get a coaching job there.

Clint Eastwood's a good friend, too - he and I used to play in softball games together.

I love that you work out relationships with people as you're filming just to get something real to play on screen.

I got no pride on the hole. It's a par-5 and I play it that way. A four is a birdie.

You just can't imagine the kind of guy he was without seeing him play. He was a circus, a play, a movie, all rolled into one.

Well, when you've had Tom Cruise play you, anything else is a comedown.

Barbie’s disfigured. It’s fine to play with her just as long as you keep that in mind.

I don't play the tuba.